From Precarious Work to Precarious Lives
Managing and Navigating Uncertainty at the Intersections of Employment, Households and the State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2374887 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eva Herman (0000-0003-2113-8597, University of Manchester, corresponding author), Gail Hebson (0000-0003-0943-9848, University of Manchester), Jill Rubery (0000-0001-9405-0073, University of Manchester) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09500170251359125 |
| OpenAlex | W4412907383 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article investigates the intersection between precarious work and precarious lives through interviews with workers in the care, hospitality and art sectors. These revealed that workers experienced precarity as a double-edged sword of time and income uncertainty shaped by the context in which they were embedded - namely their employment, their household and their relations with state welfare and care systems. These three domains shaped both the constraints they faced and the buffers and resources available to them as they managed these time and income uncertainties. A dynamic work-life articulation framework is developed that embeds the strategies workers deploy to mitigate uncertainty within these three domains and their intersections. These strategies may still only result in the least bad and often far from sustainable outcome due to changing contexts and trade-offs between time and income uncertainty
Economics · Labour economics · Political science · Precarious work · Precarity · Sociology · State (computer science · Work (physics · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Gender Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
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Innovative Social Policies
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Toward a critical politics of precarity
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The Association between Family Care and Paid Work among Women in Germany
Working to Live, Not Living to Work
In, Against and Beyond Precarity
Linking the Sectoral Employment Structure and Household Poverty in the United Kingdom
Welfare reform, precarity and the re-commodification of labour
Work-time underemployment and financial hardship
In-work Universal Credit
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |